Anna Copeland Wheatley, PhD’s Profile

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Anna Copeland Wheatley, PhD
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About Me
Shortly after beginning my doctoral studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, I made a life-changing discovery. Over the Thanksgiving holidays I read a novel entitled Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance by Richard Powers. It was big and brilliant and literally took my breath away. That said there was much scientific theory discussed in the novel that I did not understand. So, I abandoned my proposed topic of spectacle in Renaissance literature and spent the next two years reading history and philosophy of science and writing a dissertation about the relations of art and science in the first five novels of Richard Powers. Serendipity led to my next leap when OMNI Magazine moved its editorial offices to Greensboro. I became an editor, eventually moved to New York, and then launched my own magazine, AlleyCat News, which covered science, technology, and finance in the tri-state area. More recently, I have expanded my expertise to include not only writing and editing, but also production and design working for clients in education and science. I was also the editor of an independent feature-length film, Illinois, and I have a documentary in the works that examines the history of the state mental health institution in Alabama. Starting in July 2017, I am the Faculty Development Chair, College of Humanities and Sciences for the Jersey City, Philadelphia, and online faculty in the Northeast. Based on my own experience as a life-long learner, I am proud to be teaching working adults who realize that there is always more to learn. In addition to teaching, my passions include listening to audiobooks and roaming around my neighborhood in Chelsea in New York City or wandering the back roads of Alabama whenever I go back home.
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Department
English

Courses

ENG 101 Fall 2022

ENG 101 Fall 2022

English Composition is the standard freshman-writing course. The course introduces students to academic writing. By its conclusion, students will be ready for English 201 and for the writing they will be asked to do in advanced courses across the curriculum. Students completing ENG 101 will have mastered the fundamentals of college-level reading and writing, including developing a thesis-driven response to the writing of others and following the basic conventions of citation and documentation. They will have practiced what Mike Rose calls the “habits of mind” necessary for success in college and in the larger world: summarizing, classifying, comparing, contrasting, and analyzing. Students will be introduced to basic research methods and MLA documentation and complete a research project. Students are required to take a departmental final exam that requires the composition of a 500- word thesis-driven essay in conversation with two texts.

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